North America and the Caribbean @ Cary, North Carolina, USA, on 13-14 June,

Europe @ Brive, France on 20-21 June ( 1, winner from series )

Europe @ Lisbon. Portugal 18-19 July ( 3 from this repechage )

Africa @ Johannesburg, South Africa, on 26-27 September.

Oceania @ Auckland, New Zealand on 14-15 November.

Asia @ Tokyo Women’s Sevens tournament on 28-29 November.

The 12th and final place in both the men’s and women’s Olympic Games rugby sevens competitions will be determined via a World Rugby final repechage tournament which will take place before the end of June 2016 (date and location to be confirmed by 31 December, 2015).

Ser Podrick of Payne wrote:And so we now know 4 nations not taking part in the qualifiers

NZ, Australia, Canada, England aka Team GB.

Ok it was great to see USA like their men really improve this season but I'm happy GB got the last spot if only to have a better quality field in Rio than having US in the top four would've meant. I'm sure the likes of Spain, France, Russia and even the Netherlands are a lot happier with GB qualifying.

YamahaKiwi wrote:I'm sure the likes of Spain, France, Russia and even the Netherlands are a lot happier with GB qualifying.

Yes, I heard from one source that the French women were cheering for England in that 3rd place match. France will be favourites for the European qualification spot now, but Russia and Spain will be competitive, and I think there must be a good chance that one of those will come through the global repechage.

Not wishing to say that is wrong - World Rugby are not free with their information, nor are they consistent - but have definitely said June. May seems very early considering that the World Series (men and women) does not normally end until mid-May.

In addition there is no room in the repecharge for a free pass to a host nation (which has always been the case in similar previous playoffs) so I'd expect that the tournament will take place in one of the 16 nations that qualify for it - ideally a nation that appears in both the men's and women's draws. My guess for the 16 will be:

Kenya, Uganda and Tunisia from AfricaHong Kong, Kazakhstan and China from AsiaFrance, Spain, Netherlands and Ireland from EuropeSamoa and Papua from OceaniaMexico and Trinidad from NACRAColombia and Venezuela from CONSUR

It certainly won't be much different, in which case I think the list of likely hosts would be small - France, Spain or HK (maybe Japan if they fall into it).

South American tournaments awill be very interesting. Argentina is the favorite, but Colombia runs closely and Venezuela has enough power to upset one of them. Uruguay, in spite of the disapoint tournament in Mar del Plata, has also good chances to be at least in 3rd place. Chile and Paraguay have some chances also, as they did close matches against some of these teams recently. Just Peru and Costa Rica are out of question.

we have a shock! Uruguay 14 - 10 Argentina but its also (wrongly?) given on the compilation of results as 14 - 0 to Argentina @unionargentina "El seleccionado femenino cayó ante Uruguay en su segundo partido por 14 a 10

Well CONSUR totally fail to give the standings so we can say probably that the three places are now between Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina and the qualification place may come down to the winner of Colombia - Argentina depending on what tiebreaker rules are.

So Colombia need to win or draw against Argentina (assuming Arg beat Chile) to win the tournament and qualify directly for Rio. Argentina should get superior points difference if they don't lose against Chile. Colombia should be assured now of one of the top 3 places anyway.

So it's Colombia who have booked a place in the Rugby 7s Olympics finals! Congrats to them

Argentina and Venezuela have another chance in the global repechage.

It was 10-7 to Colombia - they missed the last conversion attempt. They were losing 7-5 when they scored their try, according to the commentators. Consur tweeted 7-10 originally, then 7-12 as a correction. Other people were tweeting 7-10 before Consur.

Last edited by mcruic on Sun, 07 Jun 2015, 18:00, edited 1 time in total.